Birth of Soul



    Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth
A light, a glory, fair luminous cloud
        Enveloping the Earth--
And from the soul itself must there be sent
    A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth,
Of all sweet sounds the life and element!

-Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834),
Dejection: An Ode







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